Receipts vs Smart Receipt Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Receipts
Track personal and business finances with this powerful expense tracker. Customize budgets, accounts, and receipt fields. Generate detailed reports and sync across devices.
- Income and expense tracking
- Mileage tracking
- Customizable budgets and accounts
- Custom receipt fields
- Photo, drawing, and voice memo attachments
- Multi-currency support
- Detailed financial reports (Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML)
- Cloud syncing across devices
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*** Featured by Apple in Taxes & Receipts collection *** Track your personal and business income/expenses (including mileage) with Receipts. Receipts is the most customizable and powerful expense tracking app available. Create budgets, accounts, categories, filters, and nine different types of custom receipt fields. Receipts helps you save time when submitting expense reports and during tax season. Add new receipts quickly using the autofill feature. Capture photos, add drawings, record voice memos, and attach files from other apps. Receipt totals may be entered in any currency and are instantly converted to your home currency. Create sophisticated filters based on multiple receipt fields to quickly find your receipts. Browse through graphs to keep track of income and spending. See how much money is spent over time and by account, category, and currency. Generate Excel, PDF, HTML, and CSV reports with attachments. Optionally embed photos and drawings in PDF reports. Specify report names and add custom headers. Select which receipt fields to include and sort/group receipts by any field. Share reports using a variety of options including Box, CloudApp, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive. Keep track of business, family, or group income/expenses by syncing to the cloud. Enable automatic sync support to keep multiple devices up to date. Import and export receipts (CSV) with attachments to multiple destinations. Overview: - pie and bar graphs for accounts, categories, units, spending over time, custom currency fields, and income/expenses - email, print, and open graphs in other apps Receipts: - add income, expense, or mileage receipts - add receipts in any currency and set account/home currency totals - use autofill to populate new receipts based on previous receipts - add repeating receipts with interval and end date - attach photos, drawings, voice memos, and other files to receipts - rotate, scale, crop, and adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation for receipt photos Reports: - generate Excel, PDF, CSV, and HTML reports with attachments - add custom report headers - select report file names and report names - sort and group report receipts by any field - specify which fields to include and their order - option to embed photos and drawings in PDF reports (1, 2, or 4 per page) - overlay receipt fields on photos and drawings - include links to file attachments (Excel and HTML) - zip report and attachment files - preview report before sending - send reports via email, iTunes File Sharing, WiFi, another app, print, iCloud, Box, CloudApp, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive Settings: - add accounts to manage groups of receipts - use budgets to keep track of spending - create categories and subcategories - select account and category icons (over 450 included) and a tint colour - custom receipt fields including currency, date, list, number, percent, percent total, switch, tags, and text types - create receipt filters using any combination of fields - notifications remind you to add receipts, save backups, and create reports - passcode for keeping financial data secure Data: - keep multiple devices in sync (requires Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive account) - import and export receipts (CSV) with attachments - backup/restore data and settings Note: Receipts is free but limited to 10 receipts. Purchase an in-app upgrade to Pro for unlimited receipts.
Smart Receipt Scan
Effortlessly manage personal and business expenses by scanning receipts, tracking reimbursements, and organizing financial data. Export reports in various formats and sync across devices for seamless financial oversight. It also helps track product warranties and gift card expirations.
- Smart receipt scanning
- Expense and reimbursement tracking
- PDF/CSV/Excel export
- iCloud sync
- Warranty tracking
- Multi-currency support
- Widgets for spending summary
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Smart receipt scanner and expense tracker in one easy app. Scan several receipts in one go or import photos and PDFs, and Receiptly reads the store, date, total, tax and line items for you. With Receiptly Pro, you can also connect Gmail to import receipts from your emails, see where your money goes in spending reports, and export to PDF, Excel or CSV. Keep every receipt, invoice and warranty organized and ready for tax time, budgets, refunds and reimbursements. RECEIPTLY: YOUR RECEIPT KEEPER FOR HOME AND BUSINESS Track groceries and household spending, keep proof of purchase for returns and warranties, or log business costs, mileage and travel for your accountant. Receiptly works for families, freelancers, landlords and small businesses, and syncs with iCloud across your iPhone and iPad. Features: > Smart Scan: scan paper receipts with the camera or import photos and PDFs. On-device AI fills in the details where available, and you check them before saving. > Quick capture: share a receipt from any app to Receiptly, or drag and drop images and PDFs on iPad. > Expense tracker: log expenses, income and reimbursements to see what comes in and what goes out. > Mileage tracker: log trips in miles or kilometers with your own rate, and Receiptly works out the amount. > Warranty tracker: add a warranty end date to any product and get a reminder before it expires. > Receipt organizer: categories, tags, pins and archive, plus search by store, item, amount or date. > Duplicate check: get a warning before you save the same receipt twice. > Siri and Shortcuts: scan receipts, find them and log expenses or mileage by voice, or add an expense automatically each time you pay with Apple Wallet. > Widgets and Spotlight: see a category's receipts or warranty countdowns on your Home Screen, and find receipts in Spotlight search. Receiptly Pro, an auto-renewable subscription, adds: > Unlimited receipts, expenses and categories (the free version includes 10 of each). > Reports: spending trends, categories, calendar, forecast, price watch, tax summary, and a business report with mileage. > Export receipts, expenses and tax reports to PDF, Excel or CSV for your accountant. > Travel currencies: set the currency and your own exchange rate on each receipt. > Import receipts from Gmail. Emails are read on your device. > Bulk import from CSV, save receipt images to Files, and get a spending summary from Siri. For support and suggestions, email karm.singh@outlook.com • Auto-renewable subscription • Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • You can manage your subscription or turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase. • Privacy Policy: https://receipttrackerapp.com/privacypolicy/ • Terms of Use: https://receipttrackerapp.com/termsofuse/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Receipt Scan at 4.5 against Receipts's 2.9. Smart Receipt Scan also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (82% vs 63%). Receipts's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Receipts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Smart Receipt Scan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Receipt Scan holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Receipt Scan has 65 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Receipts's written reviews are positive against 82% of Smart Receipt Scan's.
Receipts ships an update every 2 months, Smart Receipt Scan every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Receipts | Smart Receipt Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (12 ratings) | 4.5 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tidal Pool Software | Karmjit Singh |
Customer experience
Receipts
Smart Receipt Scan
Bugs and requests
Receipts
Reported bugs
11 issues- Lost data on new phone transfer
- App crashes when exporting large reports
- App deleted receipt images
- Data loss after updates
- Paid version reverts to basic
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- Cannot restore previous PRO upgrade
- App crashes and data is lost
- Upgrade issues with new iOS versions
- Inability to attach receipts/photos to reports
- Receipt data reverts to previous entries
- Camera function issues
Requested features
6 requests- iPad and Mac port
- UK VAT calculation
- Cloud storage integration
- Dark mode
- More filter options
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- PDF import
Smart Receipt Scan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Receipts
- Pro$4.99
- Pro (upgrade from v4)$4.99
Smart Receipt Scan
- Receiptly Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Receiptly Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- One time purchase$24.99
- Receiptly Pro - Lifetime$149.00
Questions
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